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Review: Pearl Jam’s Vs. by Clint Brownlee

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Vs. is the sound of a band on fire. The same confluence of talent, passion, timing, and fate that made “grunge” the world’s soundtrack also lit a short fuse beneath Pearl Jam. The band combusted … Continue reading

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Review: The Abstainer by Ian McGuire

Buy it here: Amazon Bookshop Synopsis: An Irishman in nineteenth-century England is forced to take sides when his nephew joins the bloody underground movement for independence in this propulsive novel from the acclaimed author of The North Water. The rebels will … Continue reading

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Review: Wild Swims by Dorthe Nors

Buy here: Amazon Bookshop Synopsis: A dazzling return to the short story by a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize In fourteen effervescent stories, Dorthe Nors plumbs the depths of the human heart, from desire to melancholy and everything … Continue reading

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Review: Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Buy it here: Amazon Bookshop Synopsis: After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemí Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. She’s not … Continue reading

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Review: She Ain’t Pretty by Renee Miller

Released February 25, 2021 Preorder it here: Amazon Synopsis: “Older women make killer lovers…” Blake Swanson answered an ad for a job as a farmhand, but when he arrives for his interview, Lily, the widow who placed the ad, seduces … Continue reading

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Review: Suicide’s Suicide (33 1/3) by Andi Coulter

Buy Here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: New York City in the 1970s was an urban nightmare: destitute, dirty, and dangerous. As the country collectively turned its back on the Big Apple, two musical vigilantes rose out of the miasma. Armed only … Continue reading

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Review: Outlawed by Anna North

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: The Crucible meets True Grit in this riveting adventure story of a fugitive girl, a mysterious gang of robbers, and their dangerous mission to transform the Wild West. In the year of our Lord 1894, I became … Continue reading

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Book Review: The Demon, the Dumbwaiter, and the Douchebag by Sal Cangemi

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Kyle Jarvis is hiding. He has moved into Le Trou Du Cul, a pleasant suburban apartment complex, to hide from those he has wronged. But the well-hidden complex is not as quiet as he … Continue reading

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Review: Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden

Hardcover, 336 pages. Published August 25th 2020 by Ecco Buy it here: Bookshop, Amazon Synopsis: A groundbreaking thriller about a vigilante on a Native American reservation who embarks on a dangerous mission to track down the source of a heroin influx.  … Continue reading

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Review: Extinction Peak by Lucas Mangum

Paperback, 163 pages Published September 22nd 2020 by Madness Heart Press Buy it here: Madness Heart Press, Amazon, Bookshop Synposis: When the raptors come out of sinkholes across the United States, Deandra Antigone Merriweather’s elder brother Johnny sees the chaos as … Continue reading

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